The Christmas that almost wasn't data

Someone on the PAH discord found this on Genealogy Bank from the Manchester New Hampshire location. Did the movie actually air?!

@CyberSnout , do you know what this is? I heard some copies were sold but this sounds like it was aired in store somehow.

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It’s just a watch party for the Christmas Special. I’ve seen reports it played on TV (Doubt that), It was only ever at select PTTs as far as I’m aware. It’s possible some stores sold their copy once the event was over

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Yeah, It’s seemed to be just a watch party. But it does seem to imply it wasn’t unfinished, or that it was just rushed out if not intended.

If it was unfinished then the ‘animation’ wouldn’t of been fully colored. The storybook concept is what they wanted to always do. Even if it is poorly shown

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I think the reports of it being on TV are a misreading of these articles.

Yeah, I think many just assumed it was unfinished because Kadabrascope was made for full animated features, but nothing mentioned by Corporate implies it was intended to be fully animated.

As always, it’s important to remember PTT constantly lied. Only way to trust them is when something else exists to back up the claims.

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That is true. It’s possible they simply rushed it out during the video game crash in it’s early animation state and made up it being a Story Book movie.

Ok so apparently Kadabrascope was never for Fully Animated Films (At Least as told by PTT in 1984). Don’t know if this was to cover up the failure of the movie or if this was always the case.

But then Corporate themselves imply they were?